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A fresh outbreak of cholera has been reported in five Local Government Council Areas of Plateau State. No fewer than six deaths and 33 confirmed cases have been recorded in the state. It was gathered the affected local governments are ...

Non-teaching workers of public universities have expressed worry about the growing rate of insecurity in tertiary institutions across the country. The workers, under the aegis of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), expressed the fear that nobody, including ...

  President Buhari has reacted to the death of Adamawa politician Ahmed Gulak in Owerri, Imo State by unknown gunmen, describing the death of Gulak as a “the heinous murder” President Buhari expresses outrage and disgust as he vowed to ...

  A popular anonymous blog on Instagram has claimed that Bobrisky did not leave the country as claimed for his BBL surgery, rather he underwent the procedure in Lagos state. A Brazilian butt lift (BBL) is a specialized fat transfer ...

A newly completed office of the Independent National Electoral Commission has been set ablaze at Okwudor community in Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State. INEC said that the arson attack took place around 11:30 am on Sunday. It was ...

  Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen on Sunday attacked some Ebonyi communities, killing at least 30 persons. The gunmen attacked Odoke, Ndiobasi and Obakotara communities in Ebonyi local government area. Sources in the area said the gunmen struck the three ...

Several students have been feared abducted in an Islamiyya school at Tegina in Rafi local government area of Niger state. Salihu Tanko Islamiyya School was built by a retired immigration officer in Tegina town. The school is located close to ...

General Overseer and Primate of Christ Revelation Church of God a.k.a Holy Promise, Bishop Ayodeji Ipinmoroti has said that God did not design Nigeria to disintegrate. Bishop Ipinmoroti spoke during a sermon to commemorate the Children National Day wherein he ...

  At least 200 students of an Islamiyya school located at Tegina in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State have been abducted. One person was shot dead while another lays critically injured after gunmen carried out the kidnap operation ...

The Joint Action Civil Society Coalition in Ogun State has called on all Nigerians to boycott all activities set to mark this year’s Democracy Day on June 12, 2021, in their respective States. The group made this call on Friday ...

Two officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Messrs. Edwin Onyuwe and Achigili Ogoli, have been arrested by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) over alleged certificate forgery. The Commission also arrested two members of ...

A member of the Nasarawa Assembly representing Nasarawa Central State Constituency, Hon Ismai Danbaba, has been kidnapped. Danbaba was kidnapped on Saturday evening while traveling to Jos, Plateau state for an official function. Chairman , Nasarawa Assembly Committee on Information, ...

Two female job seekers identified simply as Blessing and Praise have reportedly escaped from suspected kidnappers and human parts dealers in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The two friends, who hail from Bomadi, Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta state, had ...

Parents and family members of the remaining kidnapped students and workers of the Greenfield University, Kaduna State, said they were forced to sell their property to raise ransom as the remaining victims regained freedom. It was learnt that the bandits ...

Ahmed Gulak, a former political adviser to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has been murdered. Gulak was shot dead by gunmen in Owerri, the Imo capital. The time frame of his death is between Saturday night and the wee hours of Sunday. ...

A sixty-year-old Jerimiah Oyedokun has been arrested by the Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in connection with the alleged r.a.p.e of a 9-year- old girl. Oyedokun, who lives in the same area as ...

The Executive Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai has opened up on how his wives ran away from him when he contracted the dreaded COVID-19 in 2020. The governor said no fewer than 50,000 people would have been killed in ...

  Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi have declared that nobody can stop the movement of Ebonyi people following the sit-at-home order given by Indigenous People of Biafra leader Nnamdi Kalu. He described the no movement order directive of IPOB ...

Gunmen have razed Atta Divisional Police Headquarters, magistrate and high Courts and vandalized the community’s health Centre, in the latest arson in troubled Imo state. Atta is in the Njaba Local Government Area of Imo. The burning of the police ...

Ned Nwoko, a former house of representatives member, has broken his silence on his involvement in a protracted land tussle in a Delta community. The businessman had been in the news after Pamela Ifejoku, daughter of a community leader in ...

Fourteen students of Greenfield University, Kaduna State abducted by gunmen over a month ago have reportedly been released. Twenty students of the school and three staff were abducted by gunmen on April 21, 2021 at the school’s premises. So far, ...

Troops of Sector 2 Operation HADIN KAI on Saturday raided suspected Boko Haram logistics base in Gujba, Yobe State and arrested two logistics suppliers of the insurgents. Brigadier General Mohammed Yerima, Army spokesman, in a statement, said following a sting ...

The Gombe State Government says it has uncovered 431 ghost workers and suspended them from its payroll system for the month of May. This was disclosed by the Committee for the Integrated Payroll Payent Gateway and Human Resource Management Information ...

At least two persons were killed and 317 others injured by gunfire at celebrations in Syria marking President Bashar al-Assad’s re-election to a fourth term, a war monitor reported on Saturday. The casualties resulted from celebratory shots fired randomly by ...

The remains of 215 children have been discovered on the grounds of a former boarding school set up more than a century ago to assimilate Canada’s indigenous peoples, according to a local tribe. A specialist used ground-penetrating radar to confirm ...